Carlo Filangieri

Carlo Filangieri (10 May 1784-9 October 1867) was a Lieutenant-General of the Grande Armee of the First French Empire and in the army of the Two Sicilies.

Biography
Carlo Filangieri was born in Cava de Tirreni, Salerno, Italy on 10 May 1784, and he studied at the Ecole Militaire in Paris, France. In 1803, he received a commission in an infantry regiment of the French Revolutionary Army, and he served in the army of General Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Ulm and the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805. In 1806, he served on Jean-Andre Massena's staff during his campaign against Naples, and he would later become an adjutant to Joachim Murat when Murat became King of Naples. Filangieri defeated the Austrian Empire along the Panaro on 3 April 1815, and he was severely wounded in the process. On the restoration of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies to power, Filangieri retained his rank, and he sided with General Guglielmo Pepe during the 1820 revolution against the Austrians. In February 1848, he succeeded in convincing the King to adopt a constitution, and he conquered Sicily in May 1849 after the island seceded from Naples. Filangieri died in 1867 at the age of 83.